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ARTIST ERIC GIBBERD shows a Center jVisitor two of his paintings, which went on display for september last Sunday at the Founders Building. Mrs. H. S. Potwin, 3571 Vinecrest Drive, Dallas, visited with the artist as the display was being placed. Her son, David, a

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~Colima to Colorado': Eric Gibberd Showing Here for September THE RICHARDSO~ Civic Arts Society opened its new exhibit in the Found­ers BuDding with a reception for the artist, Eric Gibberd, Sunday, Septem­ber 11.

Artist Gibberd him s e If describes his work as "hyperbolic art", an extrava­gant exaggeration of nature to reach an expression of reality-in-depth.

The artist was born in London, moved to western Canada as a child, was a success in the United States in mer­chandising, advertising, social service organizations, and manufacturing.

1iot much more than a dozen years -'go, he "chucked everything" to be­

come an artist, studying in Austria, Spain, California. He now lives in Taos, N. M., and his paintings hang in homes, industry, museums, and galleries around the world.

House Speaker~ Legislators Visit THE HON. BEN BARNES, Speaker of the Texas House, and three legislators paid a brief, fact-finding visit to the Center on Wednesday, September 7. Signing the guest register above is Rep. Maurice Pipkin of Brownsville. Left to right are Erik Jonsson, Chairman of the Center's Board of Governors, who welcomed the visitors; Speaker Barnes, Rep­resentative Pipkin; Vice Chancellor Raymond Vowell (state and Federal Affairs) of The University of Texas, who accompanied the legislators; Rep. Ben Atwell of Dallas, and Rep. Bill Heatly of Paducah. During the luncheon and program for the visitors, President Gifford K. Johnson spoke on the plans of the center for contributions to the advancem<;!nt of graduate education; Prof. Anton L. Haies summarized research programs, and Prof. Daniel L. Harris explained how the Center shares its faculty resources with regional institutions. Center Founder Eugene McDermott and Vice Presidents Bryghte D. Godbold and James S. Triolo also served as hosts to the visitors.

Geoscientists Present BIOLOGISTS GIVE PAPER Seismic Studies Paper AT GENETICS CONFERENCE "SEISMIC REFRACTION Studies atSea"

was the paper presented at the Septem­ber 8 afternoon session of the "Science ASST. PROF. Winfrid G. C. Krone, and Engineering in the Gulf of Mexico"Biology Division, and Research Associ­symposium, presented by Gulf Univer­ate Horst Brunschede, presented apaper sities Research Corporation at the Jung "UDPG-4 Epimerase Activity in Human Hotel, New Orleans. The paper wasFibroblasts in Cell Culture" at the authored by Prof. Anton Hales, Head, International Congress on Human Gene­Geosciences Division, Vi,s i tin g Pro­tics. The conference was held in Chic­fessor Davis A. FahIquist from Texas ago, September 6-9. A&M University, and Research Assoc­iate John Dowling, Geosciences Divis­ion.

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'Good News~ of Mid-August: Pioneer 7 Launch Success

-HOME FROM Cape Kennedy and the successful launching of Pioneer 7, were Visiting Asst. Prof. U. R. Rao, Research Associate Robert p. Bukata, and Research Scientist W1lliam C. Bartley. Pioneer 7, carrying the Center's second cosmic ray detector into interplanetary space, was launched at 9;20; 17 a. m. August 17. and the instrument was tumed on at 12;40; 17. The staff members, with Electronics Supervisor Alba J. Bonham,. coldacted a "good news" conference call from Cape Kennedy to send back first details of .successful launch for an audience of m'Jre than 60 staff mi~mbers and students.

Rao.:Returns to India, P~ents URSI Paper

VISITING Asst. Prof. U. R. Rao re­turned to his assignment at the Phy­sical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, on September 2. He will rejoin the At"loSllheric and Space Sciences faculty next spring.

Proft::ssor Rao traveled to India by way of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he presented a paper on "Forbush In­crease." A second paper, "Solar Flare Anisotropies," authored by Graduate Student Jon Ables, was also presented, by Visiting Scientist Eleazar Barouch. Both papers were given at the URSI General Symposium on Solar Terres­trial Physics.

PROF. JULES FEJER, Atmospheric and Space Sciences, has accepted an ap­pointment to the faculty of the Uni­versity of California, San Diego. He was named professor in Applied Elec­trophysics, and will begin work there in September.

DR. MARTIN HALPERN, Research As­sociate, was a fifth- week winner Aug­ust 14 ill the annual Dallas Morning News Amateur Snapshot Contest.

JAMES D. BRAHAM HEADS UNITED FUND CAMPAIGN

JAM:C: S D. BRAHAM will serve as chair­man for the 1967 United Fund Cam­paign at the Graduate Research Center.

The "ampaig'1 began Wednesday, Sep­tember 14 .

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IN DALLAS, on August 6, the "launching" was dramatized in advance as Prof. Kenneth G. McCracken and his wife, Gillian, we re guests at a farewell din­ner. Professor McCracken, who has directed cosmic ray studies here since 1962, will serve on the phYSics faculty at the University Adelaide. He will re­turn to the Center as a visiting pro­fessor, to continue data interpretation from Pioneer 7.

The dinner of August 6, at the Brook­haven Country Club, mixed space and Australian motifs. Mrs. McCracken had served as Vice President of the Center Wives Club, and as official "welcomer" to new staff and faculty families.

DR. DAYTON CLEWELL, Senior Vice President, Mobil Oil Company, New York, returned to the Center August 25 to view research and educational programs.

VISITING Assoc. Prof. Davis Fahlquist returned to Texas A&M University in August, after completing his summer appointment in Geosciences.

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Finale: Summer Students Attend Lectures, Tour

"THE MARCH" to the Summer Student Lecture-Tour Series led to the Seminar Room (254) as students were given an opportunity to explore work of all Center research divisions. At right, above, Asst. Prof. Ronald H. Bauerle, Biology, introduces the subject of genetic coding in the concluding lecture.

SIXTY-FIVE enthusiastic students in ~he Center's special summer program ere invited to cross research div­

ision "lines" as they concluded their ll-week stay in mid-AUgust.

Four lectures and laboratory tours, August 17-19, offered them the chance to explore fields other than those on which they had concentrated during their summer studies and work.

The lectures began August 17 with Bob Barnes introducing Prof. Francis S. Johnson, who made more comprehen­sible the atmospheric and space sciences vocab'llary of " ,~tmosphere, exosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, interplane­tary space".

Herb Hoff introduced Prof. Anton Hales August 18. A slide program was followed by "crust and mantle, outer and inner

NSF Extends Gr ant NATIONAL SCIENCE Foundation has renewed a research grant for "Pale­omagnetism of C ret ace 0 u s Rocks." Principal Investigator is Assoc. Prof. Charles E. Helsley, Geosciences.

The one-year renewal, effective A:ug­t I, provides funding of $34, 500.

DR. FRED N. HOLMQUIST, Research Scientist, Atmospheric and Space Sci­ences, has gone to Santa Barbara, Cal­if., to the General Electric Company.

NIH Makes Study Grant NATIONAL Institutes of Health has granted $58,006 for the first year of a three-year study on "Mechanism of Exclusion in Bacteriophage." Asst. Prof. Rudolph L. Haussmann, Biology, is the Principal Investigator. ResearchAssoc­iate Beatriz Gomez will assist in the study.

core," seismic explorations, rock mag­netism, reversal of magnetic/fields and continental drift.

I At the August 19 first lecture, Charl~s Perkins, Biology Division, introduced the newly arrived Asst. Prof. Ronald Bauerle, who pictured verbally and on the blackboard DNA, RNA, bacterial and virus cells, chromosomes, genetic codes, amino acids, sequences and phase, and the interesting way in which the 5 trillion cells in the average man know how to specialize as a "muscle" cell or a "liver" cell, etc,

Also on the morning of August 19, Prof. Ivor Robinson, Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, introduced by Executive Officer John Vanderford, con­ducted a lively discussion of the way mathematicians work.

"Do you just sit and think?" one attendee asked.

In mathematics, he said, there are "apprOXimations" and there are "solu­tions." In gravitational relativity, the "apprOXimations are solutions."

FROM "SCHOOL" back to sch() the program for most of the 65 Sl students who had been at the Celli 11 weeks for special study and a in the research tasks. Hosts f( final lecture- tour series were ( right, above) Charles Perkins, Sciences, senior at Texas Tech; Hoff, Geosciences, graduate of, ern Methodist, and Bob Barnes, Bi sophomore at College of Willia Mary.

Instrument Society Vis

THE NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER Texas Instrument Society met Seminar Room of the Founders ing at 7;30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Following a coffee-and-doughnut hour, Mr. William D. Jobe, prl chairman presented Al Mitchell, ector of Information Services, a.r soc. Prof. Walter J. Heikkila, , spheric and Space Sciences, to de: the Center and its programs. Th~ gram closed with a 45-minute tc the laboratories.

ATMOSPHERIC AND Space Sciene initiated weekly seminars with th tember 7 Space PhysiCS Semil1 Prof. G. K. Walters, Rice Univ~ on "Reactions in an Qptically-P Helium Discharge".

ASST. PROF. IAN MacGREGO speak to the TI Gem and Mineral September 20 at 7;30 p.m. in the Building at Texas Instruments, 0

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aWelcome!"

New Staff Members Begin Work in August

ALEC GALLIA, new Draftsman, Atmo­spheric and Space Sciences, August 25.

DR. DERALD SMITH, Research Assoc­iate, Biology Division, August 16.

DINORAH TORRES, Bindery Clerk, Of­fice Services, August 23.

KLAUS BICHTLER, Research Associate, Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, August 15.

PHILIP KINNISON, Electronic Technic­ian, Atmospheric and Space Sciences, August 22.

BEVERLY BUTLER, Accounting, August 5.

BOBBIE SOCKWELL, Secretary, Goals for Dallas, August 10.

STEWART FALLIS, consultant to the Center, on leave from Ling-Temco­Vought, and his secretary MRS. ELOISE MABRY, currently officing in the C row­Hunt Building, Plano.

DR. IRA FE LTNER, Research Scientist, Biology Division, August 31.

JUDITH TURNER, Research Assistant, who has been working with the Mass Spectrometer, Geosciences D i vis ion, since June 20.

JERRY V. HALL, Digital Computer Op­erator, August 1.

ALFREDA W. JOHNSON, Laboratory Helper, Media Kitchen, Biology Division, August 2.

ROBERT L. JONES, Systems Program­mer, Accounting, August 1.

BONNIE F, POND, Accounting Clerk, August 8.

p HN P, SAULTERS, Assistant Receiv­rng and Property Clerk, Office Services, August 10.

DR. CONSTANTma; A. DOXIADIS, world-wide city planner and leading architect, registers as a Founders Build­ing visitor on August 1. He came to Dal­las as the guest of Mayor Erik Jonsson after receiving the $30,000 Aspen In­stitute of Humanities Award for "doing the greatest good to the greatest number of people" in 1965. His home is in Athens, Greece.

Four Papers Given at Mexico City Meeting

AT THE AMER ICAN and Mexican Physical Societies joint meeting, held in Mexico City August 29-31, papers were presented by Atmospheric and Space Sciences staff members ;

" Asymptotic Cone Normalization for Neutron Monitors by Deconvolution" by Graduate Student Jon Ables.

"Solar Induced Anisotropies of the Cos­mic Radiation in the Energy Range 7.5 to 90 Mev per Nucleon" by Re­search Scientist William C. Bart­ley, Research Associate Robert P. Buk­ata, Prof. Kenneth G. McCracken, and Asst. Prof. U. R. Rao.

" A Time Direc tion Contour Mapping of the Cosmic Ray Flux" by Mr. Ables, visiting scientist Eleazar N. Barouch, and Professor McCracken.

"X-Ray Fluxes in the Atmosphere at Mid- Latitudes" by Research Scientist William R. Sheldon.

Also in attendance at the meeting were Asst. Prof. Ricardo Palmeira and Re­search Assistant Mary Steinbock.

CB Returns to Regular Publishing Schedule CLIPBOARD begins its fifth volume with this issue, and returns to its September- May schedule, with issues planned each second week.

For information of all who assist in reports of GRC activities, the following copy de a d lin e dates are scheduled through the rest of 1966;

Issue 2, Wednesday, Sept. 21. Issue 3, Wednesday, Oct. 5. Issue 4, Wednesday, Oct. 19. Issue 5, Wednesday, Nov. 2. Issue 6, Tuesday, Nov. 15.

(This issue will be published one day early, Wednesday, Nov. 23, because of the Thanksgiving holiday).

Issue 7, Wednesday, Nov. 30. Issue 8, Wednesday, Dec. 14.

(This will be the Christmas and Year­End Review issue. Publication will be resumed on Thursday, January 12).

Three Attend URSI Solar Physics Meeting ATTENDING the URSI General Sym­posium on Solar Terrestrial Physics August 29 through Septem'Jer 2 in Bel­grade, Yugoslavia, were Prof. Francis Johnson, Head, Atmospheric and Space SCiences, Prof. William B, Hanson and Prof. Jules A, Fejer.

They also attended the URSI General Assembly meeting in Munich September 5-15.

Professor Hanson attended the second International Biophysics Congress in Vienna, Austria, enroute to Belgrade.

DR. E. STRICK, Shell DevelopmentCom­pany, Houston, conducted a Geosciences Division Semlnar at the Center Septem­ber 1. His lecture was entitled "The Determination of a Transient Creep Curve from Wave Propagation M'2asure­ments. "

BRIAN A. TINSLEY, ResearchScientist, Atmospheric and Space Sciences, con­ducted a seminar August 3 on "The Grille Spectrometer: Principles and Ap­plications in Atmospheric Research."

DR, JAN BURCHART, Research As­sociate in Geosciences, left August 31 to tour the western United States with his wife, Grazyna. They will return to Poland in September.

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IN DALLAS, on August 6, the "launching" was dramatized in advance as Prof. KelUleth G. McCracken and his wife, GHlian, were guests at a farewell din­ner. Professor McCracken, who has directed cosmic ray studies here since 1962, will serve on the physics faculty at the University Adelaide. He will re­turn to the Center as a visiting pro­fessor , to continue data interpretation from Pioneer 7.

The dinner of August 6, at the Brook­haven Country Club, mixed space and Australian motifs. Mrs. McCracken had served as Vice President of the Center Wives ClUb, and as official "welcomer" to new staff and faculty families.

DR DAYTON CLEWELL, Senior Vice President, Mobil Oil Company, New York, returned to the Center August 25 to view research and educational programs.

VISITING Assoc. Prof. Davis Fahlquist returned to Texas A&M University in August, after completing his summer appOintment in Geosciences.

"THE MARCH" to the Summer Student Lecture-Tour ser1es led to the Seminar Room (254) as students were given an opportunity to explore work of all Center research divisions. At right, above, Asst. Prof. Ronald H. Bauerle, Biology, introduces the subject of genetic coding in the concluding lecture.

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Finale: Summer Students Attend Lectures-J Tour

SIXTY-FIVE enthusiastic students in ~~e Center's special summer program )ere invited to cross research div­ision " lines" as they concluded their U-week stay in mid-August.

Four lectures and laboratory tours, August 17-19, offered them the chance to explore fields other than those on which they had concentrated during their summer studies and work.

The lectures began August 17 with Bob Barnes introducing Prof. F ranc"is S. Johnson, who made more comprehen­sible the atmospheric and space sciences vocab\llary of "atmosphere, exosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, interplane­tary space " .

Herb Hoff introduced Prof. Anton Hales August 18. A slide program was followed hy "crust and mantle, outer and inner

NSF Extends Grant NATIONAL SCIENCE Foundation has renewed a research grant for "Pale­omagnetism of C ret ace 0 u s Rocks." Principal Investigator is Assoc. Prof. Charles E. Helsley, Geosciences.

The one-ye~r renewal, effective A:ug­t I, provides funding of $34,500.

DR. FRED N. HOLMQUIST, Research Scientist, Atmospheric and Space Sci­ences, has gone to Santa Barbara, Cal­if., to the General Electric Company.

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core," seismic explorations, rock mag­netism, reversal of magnetic fields and continental drift.

At the August 19 first lecture, CharleS Perkins, Biology Division, introduced the newly arrived Asst. Prof. Ronald Bauerle, who pictured verbally and on the blackboard DNA, RNA, bacterial and virus cells, chromosomes, genetic codes, amino acids, sequences and phase, and the interesting way in which the 5 trillion cells in the average man know how to specialize as a "muscle" cell or a "liver" cell, etc.

Also on the morning of August 19, Prof. Ivor Robinson. Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, introduced by Executive Officer John Vanderford, con­ducted a lively discussion of the way mathematicians work. "Do you just sit and think?" one attendee asked.

In mathematics, he said, there are "approximations" and there are "solu­tions." In gravitational relativity, the "approximations are solutions."

FROM "SCHOOL" back to school was the program for most of the 65 Summer students who had been at the Center for 11 weeks for special study and a share in the research tasks. Hosts for the final lecture-tour series were (left to right, above) Charles Perkins, Space Sciences, senior at Texas Tech; Herb Hoff, Geosciences, graduate of South­ern Methodist, and Bob Barnes, Biology, sophomore at College of William and Mary.

Instrument Society Visits

THE NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER of the Texas Instrument Society met in the Seminar Room of the Founders Build­ing at 7;30 p.m. Tuesday, September 13.

Following a coffee-and-doughnut social hour, Mr. William D. Jobe, program c.ha1rman presented Al Mitchell, Dir­ector of InformaUon Services, and As­soc. Prof. Walter J. Heikkila, Atmo­spheric and Space Sciences, to describe the Center and its programs. The pro­gram closed with a 45-minute tour of the laboratories.

ATMOSPHERIC AND Space Sciencesre­initiated weekly seminars with the Sep­tember 7 Space Physics Seminar by Prof. G. K. Walters, Rice University, on "Reactions in an Optically-Pumped Helium Discharge".

ASST. PROF. IAN MacGREGOR will speak to the TI Gem and Minerals Club September 20 at 7;30 p.m. in the Texins Building at Texas Instruments, on "My Visit to the Diamond Mines."

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PROF. JOHN J AGGE R was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in June.

Prof. John Jagge r is Austin College Speaker PROF. JOHN JAGGER gave a morning lecture August 23 before the 1966 Austin College Colloquium at Moody Science Center in Sherman on "The Biological Revolution," and participated in the afternoon colloquium on phllo.sophical implications of tile biological revolution.

Theme for the week-long, grant- financed seminar was "Christian Responsibility in a Revolutionary World."

PROFESSOR JAGGER spoke on July 20 to the Naval Reserve Law Company 8- 6 on "Life on Other Planets."

ASSOC. PROF. HAROLD WERBIN, Bi­ology Division, went to La Jolla August 8-10 to complete a collaborative study at Marine Biological Lab 0 rat 0 r y of Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The study demonstrated the existence of a photoreactivating factor in blue-green algae that reverses ultraviolet damage to a DNA virus infecting the algae.

JAMES S. TRIOLO, Vice President for Development and Public Information, gave a "GRC Progress Report" for the last two years to the Carrollton Rotary Club August 11, in the Conference Room of the Otis Engineering Plant.

NICK EAKER, Project Engineer, DASS, spoke at the noon meeting of the White Rock East Lions Club August 25 on "The Graduate Research Center and Ionospheric Rocket Research."

D. W. CANHAM, JR., has assumed the additional duties and responsibilities as Executive Officer to Prof. Chaim Richman, Pion Dosimetry Project.

Center Story to Be Told At Amarillo Luncheon Set for September 27 CO-HOSTING A luncheon at the Am­arillo Club, Tuesday, Septem'Jer 27, will be two Advisory Council members from Amarillo: J. Harold Dunn, Chair­man, The Shamrock Oil and Gas Cor­poration, and S. B. Whittenburg, Globe News Publishing Company.

0 '1e hundred guests will hear about the "Concept and Origin of the Graduate Research Center" from J. Erik Jons­son, Chairman of the Board of Gov­ernors, and "What the Graduate Re­search Center M·3ans to the Region" from Pre sid e n t Gifford K. Johnson. James S. Triolo, Vice President, also will attend.

E. L. DAMON, Director of Research of the Foster Wheeler Corporation, and E. L. WILSON, Manager of Technical Development services, Forney Engi­neering Company, visited the Center August 18.

LYELL C. DAWES, Editor-in-Chief, In­dustrial and Book Division, McGraw­Hill Book Company, visited Presi.dent G iffo t d J ohnson and Vice President James Triolo at the Center Septem'Jer 2.

ST UDENT VISITORS last month incit!­ded Bob Lewis from Corpus Christi, whose Dallas visit was sponsored by Mr. Roy Martin, Small Business Ad­ministration, Dallas, and Mrs. Martin, who joined Bob for the Summer Student Lecture on Atmospheric and Space Sci­ences August 17.

Joseph T. Orchard Joins Development

JOSEPH T. ORCHARD joined the De­velopment Office of the Center Septem­ber 6 as Associate Director, Corporate Development.

Mr. Orchard's primary responsibility will be in the field of corporate gifts.

He left the presidency and general man­agership of Pecan Joe Enterprises, Inc., a chain of seven retail outlets in thre' states featuring regional gift merchan dise, candies and foods.

Mr. Orchard was formerly an account executive with Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborne. He is a graduate of Ford­ham University.

SHERMAN L. PEASE, Manager, Tech­nical Training Department, Shell De­velopment Company, visited the Center on August 22.

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